Professional Production
‘Two or three times a year, usually when I am reaching a state of profound gloom engendered by the amateur quality of too many programmes of local origin, I hear something which restores my faith. This time, it was the NZBS documentary Of Ye Meat and Of Ye Drink, written by Oliver A. Gillespie, read by New Zealand actors and produced by Bernard Beeby. This _ programme, which gave an account of the changing food habits of the British people over seven centuries, was packed with interesting comments and quotations, and a great deal of information, but the excellence of the script and the "professional" quality of its production, which was swift and vigorous without becoming over-excited, maintained an admirably light touch. This programme seemed to me fully up to the normal standard for a BBC documentary, and was better than some we have had recently,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 11
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148Professional Production New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 11
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